A classic today, in part because part of my out-of-town trip this week involved a teacher workshop in which I asked why children’s historical fiction so often turns out to be both bad fiction and bad history?The worst of these dreadful books are what I call “The Twins Go Back In Time,” in which a […]
Pearls Before Swine creator Stephan Pastis has extended his brand by creating a rude personality that some people find tiresome but many, many others find hilarious. His blog is a compilation of posts that mostly reinforce the concept of a rude, insensitive boor who often offends people without realizing it, and he has made a […]
I’m out of town and won’t be able to post a Comic Strip of the Day.com today.However, this website should keep you out of trouble until I’m back. In fact, it may get you into trouble, depending on what else you were supposed to accomplish today.For comics fans, or Broadway fans, or artists, or photographers […]
I disagree with what Matt Bors has to say, but I will defend to the death this absolutely brilliant cartoon. And I will laff my @ss off while doing it.You get a “Genius Pass” on this one, Matt. Don’t push it.
“Rhymes with Orange” is one of a handful of strips that I have to consciously avoid letting take over this site and appearing four or five times a week. I’m pretty sure that Hilary Price is every bit as funny as I think she is, but I’m very sure that her mind works in […]
Non Sequitur got a genuine laugh, rather than a “that’s pretty good,” out of me this morning. Now, of course, having enjoyed it, I feel compelled to analyze why I enjoyed it.Sort of the way a puppy gets a nice squeaky toy and then tears it apart to find, and destroy, the squeaker. It’s how […]
“Guts: A Young Adult Television Fiasco” comes courtesy of a tip at the Comics Reporter, a website I hit every morning which is much more comic-book than comic-strip oriented but is full of fascinating stuff. (This is the first page of the memoir; hit the link to read the whole thing. It’s long enough to […]
As noted before, “The New Adventures of Queen Victoria” has the advantage of being a web strip and thus being able to respond more quickly to developing news.But I doubt even Pab Sungenis was expecting this late-breaking boost to his punchline, in which we discover that the NATO push against Libya’s attacks on its own […]
Grand Avenue on the scourge of grandparents with cameras. Which could also be the scourge of parents with cameras, except that Grand Avenue is about a grandmother raising a pair of twins.Whoever does it, there are adults who manage without a great deal of effort to teach kids to Stop, Turn and Grin whenever someone […]
The current story arc in “Retail” has been so tightly paced that, having not featured it at the start, I’ve been loathe to suggest dropping in midway. However, I think it’s worth doing, and you could even go back to the 15th and start at the beginning.The arc is about Marla taking a day off […]
In the current Cul de Sac arc, Petey succumbs to peer pressure and agrees to sign up for soccer, poor lad. Not only does this jolt our little Oblomov out of his bed, but it puts him squarely in the sunshine, among grass and peers.No good can come of this.When my boys were boys, I […]
Well, timing is everything and sometimes it’s nothing, but you’re probably better off for it. I just got “Waiting for Superman” from Netflix but haven’t watched it yet, which forestalls a long rant about this Signe Wilkinson cartoon.But it doesn’t preclude a shorter one which will be quite long enough, I’m sure.She’s right, of […]
This would be a good time to dip into Dick Tracy for a few weeks and see how you like it.The strip had been drawn by Dick Locher since 1983, but he has just retired and handed it over to a new team, artist Joe Staton and writer Mike Curtis, longtime fans of the 80-year-old […]
Sometimes stupid is what you wanted, and today’s Sherman’s Lagoon is a really stupid comic strip that gave me a chance to write a really stupid headline.It was a near thing. Given the purported location of Sherman’s Lagoon, it would perhaps be more logical to suspend the fan from a dugong rather than a manatee, […]
Yesterday, the House pushed through a bill defunding public broadcasting, in an effort to make a grandstanding ploy to energize their nutbase. The bill probably won’t even get a vote in the Senate, much less pass.I can relate to today’s Knight Life strip, though, because we just went through another pledge drive here. Yet another […]